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Oh how the mighty have fallen.

If you opened a newspaper today and looked at the SEC East standings, you’d find an unusual site: Mark Richt’s Georgia Bulldogs at the very bottom. Under Kentucky. Under Vanderbilt. Under South Carolina against whom they could only muster six points. To give you an idea how bad things have gotten for Georgia, Las Vegas has them at pick ‘em this week at Mississippi State.

As a Florida grad, I probably shouldn’t be writing this considering we haven’t been all that impressive either and we still have a game against them in late October but GOODNESS! Georgia absolutely stinks.

The Bulldogs started the season ranked just outside the Top 20 as they generally do, but in the past two weeks they rushed out of the AP rankings like they were charging a cover. It wasn’t all that long ago that this team finished the season ranked second in the nation but Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno are long gone.

In this week’s caption contest, Georgia fans can reminisce about a fonder time, in 2007, when Mark Richt, whose seat is getting hotter by the week, defeated their arch-rival Florida Gators. To this day, it remains Urban Meyer’s only loss against the Gators’ top three rivals (Georgia, Florida State, Tennessee).

Have at it football fans, and before you starting feeling bad for Coach Richt, keep in mind he’s making three million dollars this year.

My heart is out west with the PAC 10… I’m so sick of the Big Ten… I did a post a few months back on Fox about where all the TV college sports talking heads come from. Did you know that in college football around 90% of the people on ESPN and the game announcers/color people have ties to the Big Ten? When it comes to hype the Big Ten isn’t just the NCAA Champion, they’re the WORLD Champion! No wonder they worm their way into the poll driven big bowl games and then get blasted! Then they make excuses about having to play in a warm weather site, blah blah blah… Poor babies! LOL

I’ve got a real problem with schools that play 2/3rds of their games at home, schedule push-over non-conference schools, breeze through a lightweight conference and then profess how great they are… That’s the Ohio State formula for success with the talking heads pushing their agenda…

Well, Bob, there’s no denying the importance of football in the midwest. Many of the great coaching minds come from there, including our own Urban Meyer. I don’t resent them for having such rich tradition (although you’re right, they do get a bit big-headed about it at times).

I’m not OSU apologist but keep in mind, they have scheduled Miami and USC in recent years. I don’t know that you’ll see the top tier SEC teams schedule top-tier Pac-10 teams, although you will get that rare LSU-Arizona match-up every so often.

If Bama and OSU both run the table this year, who will have had more impressive wins?

For Georgia to not finish either first, second or third in the SEC East is unacceptable.

I know the Gators make it hard on everyone else, but second place should be attainable. I know the Ol Ball Coach has a solid squad and I know Georgia’s starting a redshirt freshman QB (Why?) but Georgia faithful have higher expectations.

Richt shouldn’t think for one second that they won’t be tired of playing second fiddle…. or worse.

Dear Mark Richt,
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. GET WITH IT OR SELL YOUR HOUSE. WE LOVE YOU BUT ONLY SO MUCH. DO SOMETHING WITH THE TALENT THAT YOU HAVE ON THE FIELD. HOW MANY 1ST ROUND DRAFT CHOICES HAVE YOU HAD THAT YOU AND YOUR COACHING STAFF COULD DO NOTHING WITH? IT’S A SAD DAY WHEN YOU NEED A PROBATION OFFICER ON YOUR COACHING STAFF AND YOU ARE 0-3 IN SEC. IT MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP WHEN I KNOW U R DOING NO BETTER THAN GOFF AND DONNAN. I WAS THERE WHEN AUBURN WAS BEATING US 35-0 AT HALF TIME IN THE DONNAN DAYS. DEFENSE IS PLAYING TIME ZONE. WE ARE IN THE SAME TIME ZONE AS RECEIVERS BUT NOTHING MORE.

Unfortunately, we’re in the day and age of major college programs having kids that make mistakes. It happens at Florida, Georgia, USC and North Carolina among others. No school is exempt from these types of issues as long as they enroll 18-22 year old boys.

The issue of the health of Coach Richt’s wife is a different story altogether. I would imagine it very difficult for him to concentrate on anything else.

That being said, I’m sure there’s plenty of boosters that don’t give a damn. And I don’t know how much leeway Coach Richt has.

0-3 in conference play for the first time since 1993. I would have thought it was longer than that.

UPDATE: Georgia freshman linebacker Demetre Baker was booted off the team today after his arrest early this morning by Athens-Clarke County police on charges of DUI, improper driving and underage possession of alcohol. (Athens Banner-Herald September 26, 2010)